Mayflower Cafe, Jackson MS
I’ve just returned from spending a few days in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, where I had the pleasure of meeting Alice Waters — the great chef, cookbook author and inspiration for the good food movement. Waters was in central Louisiana to celebrate the first harvest from the Avoyelles Charter Public School “Edible Schoolyard” — one of many such school vegetable gardens that have opened around the country since Waters first developed the program for the Berkeley, California, school system.
Waters shared top billing at this event with the Parish’s best known native-son chef – Joe Truex of Repast Restaurant, whom I accompanied. (Joe and his wife/co-chef Mihoko Obunai are my neighbors and good friends, which is why I have never shared any opinion about their restaurant in this blog and always disclose the relationship when his name comes up in a news story).
I’ll write a piece about this event next week, but in the meantime I wanted to share some …